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This May 17, 2011 file photo shows U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., announcing his candidacy for U.S. Senate, in Creve Coeur, Mo. Akin said in an interview Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012 with St. Louis television station KTVI that pregnancy from rape is "really rare." Akin, who has said he opposes all abortions, said in the interview if a woman is raped, her body "has ways to shut that whole thing down." (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, file)

Republican's 'legitimate rape' remarks stir rage

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(AP) - Missouri Congressman Todd Akin, a conservative Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, sparked a furor and earned a rebuke from Mitt Romney's campaign after saying that women's bodies can prevent pregnancies...
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In this photo of Wednesday July 25, 2012, Somalia's constituency assembly members hold up copies of the proposed new constitution during the beginning of a nine-day meeting on Wednesday to examine, debate and vote on the proposed new constitution, in Mogadishu, Somalia. Somali leaders are debating a new constitution that protects the right to abortion to save the life of the mother and bans the circumcision of girls. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Somalia constitution allows abortion to save mom

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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Somali leaders are debating a new constitution that protects the right to have an abortion to save the life of the mother...
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24-year-old woman dies shortly after having abortion

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24-year-old Tonya Reaves died suddenly after having an abortion a Planned Parenthood clinic in Chicago Friday night...
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Sharpton, nun slam proposed aid cuts

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VIDEO - Last night, Rev. Al Sharpton interviewed Catholic nun Sister Simon Campbell on Politics Nation about organizing a bus tour to draw attention to nuns' work with the poor and protest of proposed aid cuts.
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Pro-choice activists with the National Organization For Women hold a vigil outside the U.S. Supreme Court on January 23, 2012 in Washington, DC. T(Photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)

House rejects sex-selection abortion ban

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JIM ABRAMS,Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have voted against legislation to make it a federal crime to carry out gender-based abor

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McDonnell's 'personhood' bill dies in Virginia

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A controversial bill, backed by Republican Virginia Bob McDonnell, which would have severely threatened abortion rights (and disproportionately affected African-American women) was killed by the state senate today...
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Black Georgia rep proposes male sterilization bill

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The proposed law, put forward by Rep. Yasmin Neal (D), would ban the practice of male sterilization except in cases where a man faces serious health risks without one...
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Planned Parenthood attacks hurt minorities

Daniella Gibbs Leger
OPINION - Last week, the Susan G. Komen Foundation really stepped in it when they refused to renew their grants to Planned Parenthood...
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Sherri Shepherd admits to having 'a lot' of abortions

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Sherri Shepherd got quite emotional as she expressed her thoughts with "The View" cast mates as they spoke about a controversial Texas law which requires that women have a
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GOP memo calls abortion 'leading cause' of blacks' death

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A controversial memo circulated by House Republicans has surfaced saying that African-American abortions are different from those of any other race...
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